Spotnitz worked for eight seasons of The X-Files original series.[3]. He co-created and executive produced Ransom for CBS in the US, Corus' Global in Canada, TF1 in France and RTL in Germany; Medici: Masters of Florence, starring Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman for RAI in Italy, SFR Play in France and Netflix in the UK, US and Canada; and the comedy-drama series The Indian Detective, starring Russell Peters, for Bell Media/CTV and Netflix. The second season of Ransom was broadcast, while the third season is in development. The second season of Medici is due to air in late 2018 and the third season is in production. Spotnitz created, executive produced, developed and wrote several episodes of the Amazon drama The Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel.[4] Launched in the UK, US, Germany and Austria in 2015, the show is now in its fourth season. Spotnitz's other credits include Crossing Lines Season 3 (Tandem/Studio Canal), starring Goran Visnjic and Donald Sutherland;[5]Transporter Season 2 (TNT); Hunted, which he created for BBC1 and HBO Cinemax; Strike Back: Project Dawn; Night Stalker; Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division; The Lone Gunmen; Harsh Realm; and Millennium.

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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon

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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects

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The X-Files
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The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10,1993 to May 19,2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a film of the same name. Later in 2008, a film was made and preceded a tenth season revival. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files, early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a very few select people. The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep the existence of life a secret. They develop a relationship which begins as a platonic friendship. In addition to the story arc, Monster-of-the-Week episodes form roughly two-thirds of all episodes. When creating the characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson equally, in the last two seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced, FBI agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes, Mulder and Scullys boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, also became a main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files, I Want to Believe as well as the tenth season of the series. The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received positive reviews. Initially considered a series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, the series also spawned a franchise which includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise. The revival premiered on January 24,2016, the X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Mulder is a profiler and strong believer in the supernatural. He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and this set of beliefs earns him the nickname Spooky Mulder and an assignment to a little-known department that deals with unsolved cases, known as the X-Files. His belief in the springs from the claimed abduction of his sister Samantha Mulder by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12

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Philip K. Dick
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Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, who published works mainly belonging to the genre of science fiction. Born in Illinois before moving to California, Dick began publishing science fiction stories in the 1950s and his 1962 alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle earned Dick early acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel. He followed with science fiction such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel, a collection of his non-fiction writing on these themes was published posthumously as The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. He died in 1982 of a stroke, aged 53, in addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. A variety of films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Paycheck, Next. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923, in 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series. The death of Jane six weeks later, on January 26,1929, profoundly affected Philips life and his family later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. When Philip was five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada, both parents fought for custody of Philip, which was awarded to the mother. Dorothy, determined to raise Philip alone, took a job in Washington, D. C. Philip was enrolled at John Eaton Elementary School, completing the second through fourth grades. His lowest grade was a C in Written Composition, although a teacher remarked that he shows interest and he was educated in Quaker schools. In June 1938, Dorothy and Philip returned to California, Dick stated that he read his first science fiction magazine, Stirring Science Stories in 1940 at the age of twelve. Dick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California and he and fellow science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the graduating class but did not know each other at the time. After graduation, he attended the University of California, Berkeley. Dick did not declare a major and took classes in history, psychology, philosophy and this question from his early studies persisted as a theme in many of his novels. Dick dropped out because of ongoing anxiety problems, according to his third wife Annes memoir and she also says he disliked the mandatory ROTC training. At Berkeley, Dick befriended poet Robert Duncan and poet and linguist Jack Spicer, Dick claimed to have been host of a classical music program on KSMO Radio in 1947

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Daily Express
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The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the title of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson and its sister paper The Sunday Express was launched in 1918. As of December 2016, it had a daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000, hugh Whittow has served as the papers editor since February of 2011. The papers editorial stances are often seen as aligned to the UK Independence Party, in addition to its sister paper, Express Newspapers also publishes the red top newspapers the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday. The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, Pearson, who had lost his sight to glaucoma in 1913, sold the title to the future Lord Beaverbrook in 1916. It was one of the first papers to place instead of advertisements on its front page along with carrying gossip, sports. It was also the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword puzzle, the Express began printing copies in Manchester in 1927 and in 1931, the publication moved to 120 Fleet Street, a specially commissioned art deco building. Under Beaverbrook, the newspaper achieved a high circulation, setting records for newspaper sales several times throughout the 1930s. Its success was due to its aggressive marketing campaign and a vigorous circulation war with other populist newspapers. Beaverbrook also discovered and encouraged an editor named Arthur Christiansen who, at an early age, showed talent for writing. Christiansen became editor in October 1933, under his editorial direction sales climbed from two million in 1936 to four million in 1949. The paper also featured Alfred Bestalls Rupert Bear cartoon and satirical cartoons by Carl Giles which it began publishing in the 1940s, on 24 March 1933, a front page headline titled Judea Declares War on Germany was published by the Daily Express. During the late thirties, the paper was an advocate of the appeasement policies of the Chamberlain government. The ruralist author Henry Williamson wrote for the paper on many occasions for half a century and he also wrote for the Sunday Express at the beginning of his career. In 1938, the moved to the Daily Express Building. It opened a building in Glasgow in 1936 in Albion Street

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Camp Zama
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Camp Zama is a United States Army post located in the cities of Zama and Sagamihara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, about 40 km southwest of Tokyo. Camp Zama is home to the U. S. Army Japan /I Corps, Camp Zama is close to the Sagami River near the foothills of the Tanzawa Mountain Range, Kanagawa Prefecture. The installation falls in the Zama City limits while the two housing areas, Camp Zama and Sagamihara Family Housing Area, are located in the adjacent Sagamihara City, once considered rural, this area has transformed into an urban area. New housing developments and communities along with shopping centers have increased the population, traveling from Tokyo and outlying U. S. military installations to Camp Zama averages from 1.5 to 3 hours depending on the time of day. However traveling from other parts of Kanagawa was made easier with the opening of the nearby Sagamihara/Aikawa Interchange which connects with the Ken-Ō Expressway in May 2012. The recommended method to travel to Camp Zama during times of peak traffic is via the extremely reliable local public transportation train system. The closest train station to Camp Zama is the Odakyū Lines Sōbudai-mae Station, Camp Zama is located on the former site of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, which was named Sōbudai by Emperor Showa. Route 51 is the road to Camp Zama that was built in order for the Emperor to travel to review the graduating classes from Machida Station. The Emperor Showa visited Camp Zama in 1937, Camp Zama also houses an emergency shelter for the Emperor, and to this day, it has been maintained by the U. S. Army Garrison Japan. The Camp Zama theater workshop is one of the few remaining buildings from the pre-occupation era and it is a large hall that was used for ceremonies by the Imperial Japanese Army. Additionally, the recreation center still stands currently used by the Camp Zama Tours and Travel Office and Boys Scouts. In November 1984, Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited Camp Zama, the camp has been attacked several times by terrorists. First when a bomb was exploded outside the camp in 2002 by the Revolutionary Army, there was a further attack in 2007, which was speculated to be an Al-Qaida attack but responsibility was claimed by so-called Revolutionary Army responsible for the 2002 attack. There was another attempted attack in May 2015, in 2004 Charles Jenkins, a U. S. Army sergeant who had deserted to North Korea in 1965, turned himself into Camp Zama. He was sentenced to a 30-day jail sentence and given a dishonourable discharge and he later gained permanent residency in Japan to live with his Japanese wife and family. In 2005 a live anthrax sample was sent to the base in error, in March 2007, Michael Jackson visited the camp to greet 3,000 plus U. S. troops and their families. “You people are among the most special in the world because you haven chosen a life of service, because of you here today and others who have given their lives, we can enjoy our freedom at home. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I love you, col. Robert M. Waltemeyer, Commander U. S. Army Garrison Japan, presented Jackson with a Certificate of Appreciation for his devotion to U. S

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CTV Television Network
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CTV is an English-language broadcast television network in Canada launched in 1961. Since 2000 it is owned by the Bell Media division of BCE, Bell Media also operates additional CTV-branded properties, including the 24-hour national cable news network CTV News Channel and the secondary CTV Two television system. Calgary and Edmonton were served by privately owned CBC affiliates, the six markets by CBC owned-and-operated stations. Indeed, Baton had already begun quietly contacting the successful applicants in other cities to gauge their interest in forming a group to share Canadian programming among the stations. This led to the July 1960 formation of the Independent Television Organization, consisting of all eight of the newly licensed private stations, each station would have a single vote in the ITOs operations, regardless of the size of the stations audience. The ITO soon resolved to apply for a licence to link these second stations. The BBG – and particularly its chair Andrew Stewart – was not in favour of a station-owned network, although it did not immediately approve Caldwells proposal, it soon set several conditions on such a network that effectively made Caldwells group the only feasible applicant. That fall, the Caldwell group and the ITO faced off in a series of meetings with the BBG, ultimately, the BBG granted a licence to CTN, conditional on securing the affiliation of six of the eight ITO stations. Batons opposition to the CTN reversed in early 1961, soon after CFTO won the broadcast rights to the Canadian Football League Eastern Conference for the 1961 and 1962 seasons. Batons original plan was to operate a network to distribute the games incorporating CFTO, other independent stations. Although the plan was never officially rejected, various uncertainties eventually led John Bassett to decide to sign an agreement with CTN instead to ensure the games would air. The network finally launched as the CTV Television Network on October 1,1961, the CBC had objected to the networks initial name, apparently claiming it had exclusive rights to the term Canadian, and therefore the letters CTV have no official expanded meaning. The CTV networks first night on-air began with Harry Raskys promotional documentary on the new network and that was followed by a fall season preview program. At first, flagship CFTO was the station that carried programming live. During CBCs off-hours, CTV used CBCs microwave system to send programming to the rest of the country on tape delay, eventually, a second microwave channel opened up, enabling live programming from coast to coast. For example, most of the rights to American programming rested with the ITO, in many cases, CTV found itself competing with its own stations for the rights to programming. Caldwells departure in 1965 did little to alleviate the situation, in 1966, the networks affiliates sought permission to buy the network and run it as a cooperative. The BBG was initially skeptical of the proposal, since CFTO was by far the largest and richest station, the BBG feared that CFTO would dominate CTV if the stations were allowed to buy the network

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The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
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The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The pilot premiered on January 15,2015, and was Amazons most-watched since the series development program began. On February 18,2015, the series was picked up for a season. A second season of ten episodes premiered on December 16,2016, on January 3,2017, it was announced that Amazon had renewed the series for a third season. The central characters are Juliana Crain, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, John Smith, Nobusuke Tagomi, the series takes place in an alternate 1962. The film is entitled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and is part of a series of similar newsreels being collected by someone referred to as The Man in the High Castle. Juliana believes the newsreel reflects some sort of reality and that it is part of some kind of larger truth about how the world should be. Her boyfriend, Frank Frink, believes that the newsreel has no relation to real-life events, Juliana learns Trudy was carrying the film to Canon City, Colorado, in the Neutral Zone, where she was going to meet someone. Juliana decides to travel there in Trudys place to find out what her half-sisters mission was, when she arrives in Canon City, she encounters Joe Blake. Blake is pretending to be a member of the resistance while he searches for the contact in Canon City. Nobusuke Tagomi is a high-ranking Japanese official in San Francisco and he meets in secret with Nazi official Rudolph Wegener, who is traveling incognito as Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. Tagomi and Wegener are concerned about the vacuum that will exist when the Reichs Führer Adolf Hitler dies. Wegener explains that Hitlers successor will want to use the Reichs nuclear bombs against Japan to gain control of the rest of the former United States. Currently, however, Japan and the Third Reich are engaged in a cold war full of tension but no open warfare, Frank Frink ends up being arrested when the Japanese and the Nazis become suspicious of Julianas activities. He is unable, even if he wanted to, to them the information the Japanese wanted. This leads Frink to plan to kill the visiting Crown Prince and Princess, Juliana Crain claims asylum in the Nazi Reich using their San Francisco Embassy so she can escape Japanese soldiers who hold her responsible for at least one murder. Joe Blake himself discovers he was a product of the Lebensborn programme, John Smith is the only high-ranking Nazi official to be suspicious of the nature of Heusmanns sudden announcement. Upon learning this, the entire Volkshalle erupts in to a celebratory mood marked by repeated mass Nazi salutes of Himmlers men in general and then John Smith in particular

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Crossing Lines
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Crossing Lines is a German-French-Italian-American television series created by Edward Allen Bernero and Rola Bauer. Its first television broadcast was in Italy on June 14,2013, Crossing Lines was premiered in the United States on NBC on June 23,2013. Bernero and Bauer are the executive producers. The show was renewed for a 12-episode second season by TF1, NBC did not broadcast the show after the first season. Netflix carried the series first two seasons, and announced the debut of three on February 19,2015. Canadas CBC aired second season episodes during late night hours, on 20 February 2015, the show was renewed for a 12-episode third season. The third season began on September 15,2015 and he is recruited to join the International Criminal Courts special crime unit. Based in The Hague, it investigates a variety of crimes that cross international boundaries, elsa Mollien as Rebecca Daniel, Louiss wife and Dorns co-worker. Klára Issová as Shari, Hickmans carnival co-worker and love interest, kim Coates as Phillip Genovese, an American criminal who stalks Hickman in Europe. Rossif Sutherland as Lt. Moreau, Prefecture of Police of Paris, florentine Lahme as Hauptkommissarin Kathrin Eichholtz, Berliner Polizei, Sebastians ex-girlfriend. Scotland Yard Carrie-Anne Moss as Det, amanda Andrews, NYPD, Hickmans former partner and love interest. Ray Stevenson as Superintendent Miles Lennon, Scotland Yard, sophia Myles as Dr. Anna Clarke. Michelle Fairley as ICC Prosecutor Sophie Baines, Crossing Lines was co-commissioned by Frances TF1 and Sony for its AXN network of channels. This is Tandems first one-hour drama series, having previously produced miniseries, the first season was filmed in Paris, Nice and Prague, with filming ending in February 2013. Locations in Prague were used for parts of Paris, Italy, audio post-production was done by SoundSquare in Prague while video post-production work was done by Universal Production Partners. Approximately €10 million was spent in the Czech Republic on the production of the first season, Bernero said that the show would feel familiar and help viewers find their orientation, but the European locations will make it feel fresh and very new. Tom Conroy of Media Life Magazine found the European flavour of the show, seen in such things as travelling by train to various cities, overall, Conroy found it an unimaginative procedural that, despite its title, generally colors within the lines. David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle also found the location to be what sets Crossing Lines apart from every show on American network television